Courage Was My Only Option: The Autobiography of Roman Kent »

Foreword     vii
Acknowledgments     xi
Prologue: From the Holocaust to a New Life     1
A Happy Childhood in Lodz     7
Golden Summers     22
Winds of War     29
My Dog Lala, a Child's Best Friend     37
Moving to the Ghetto     45
Ghetto Life     55
Working in the Ghetto     61
The Beginning of the End     70
Auschwitz ... Children of the Holocaust     77
Life in Auschwitz     87
Gross-Rosen Concentration Camp     98
Flossenburg Concentration Camp     106
Germany After Liberation     114
Reunion At Last     126
Coming to America     135
Living Through Ballyhoo     142
My Brother Leon     159
The Business World     168
Big Business in The Big Apple     175
Photo Section     194
The Birth of Namor     218
The Dreyfus Affair (David vs. Goliath)     226
Starting a Family     236
Communal Involvement     254
WAGRO (Warsaw Ghetto Resistance Organization)     255
The ADL (Anti-Defamation League)     256
JFR (The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous)     261
The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors     267
Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Summer Fellowship Teachers Program     282
The Claims Conference (Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany)     287
The German Foundation Initiative     316
ICHEIC (The International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims)     333
The Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the U.S. (Presidential Commission)     348
Reflections on the United Nations Commemoration for the Sixtieth Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz     356
Postscript     363
Selected Speeches
1996 Humanitarian Award Presented to Roman Kent Seventh Annual Interfaith Concert of Remembrance Cathedral of St. John The Divine November 16, 1996     367
Remarks by Roman Kent Chairman, American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors Vice President, Claims Conference, Berlin, German Foreign Ministry Bundestag-July 17, 2000     370
Remarks by Roman Kent Acceptance of Harvey Schulweis Award JFR Dinner-December 11, 2000     374
The Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre Gala Concert at Carnegie Hall Remarks by Roman Kent-June 3, 2004     376
Reflections: "The Century That Was, Was ..."     378
Remarks by Roman Kent at the Bat Mitzvah of Emmalee Kent May 6, 2006      381